Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Affected or characterized by sorrow or unhappiness.
- adj. Expressive of sorrow or unhappiness.
- adj. Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing: a sad movie; sad news.
- adj. Deplorable; sorry: a sad state of affairs; a sad excuse.
- adj. Dark-hued; somber.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
- adj. Steadfast, valiant.
- adj. Dignified, serious, grave.
- adj. Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
- adj. Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
- adj. Appearing sorrowful.
- adj. Causing sorrow; lamentable.
- adj. Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
- adj. Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
- adj. soggy (to refer to pastries).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
- adj. Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
- adj. Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
- adj. Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
- adj. Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
- adj. Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
- adj. Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
- n. Seasonal affective disorder.
- transitive v. To make sorrowful; to sadden.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
- Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
- Firm; solid; fixed.
- Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
- Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
- Weighty; important; momentous.
- Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
- Settled; fixed; resolute.
- Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
- Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
- Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
- Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
- Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
- Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
- Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
- Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
- = Syn. 11 and
- Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
- Dire, deplorable.
- To make firm.
- To strengthen; establish; confirm.
- To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.
- Strongly; stiffly.
- Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
- Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. bad; unfortunate
- adj. of things that make you feel sad
- adj. experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Examples
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My poor kitteh, known as William, Sir William of Lounge, Sir Lounge-a-lot, etc., has crwn too. *sad* *sad* He catches his booteefuls looooong tail in bafrum door and well, it not so loooooong now. *sad* *sad* We is sad kittehs tonite.
Aw, dude. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We know the once sad spirit now, no longer _sad_, the _radiant_ Genius of Humanity.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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You will think this letter a very sad one, but _I feel sad_ ....
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i not scare die (blah blah blah) i now very sad sad +sad me say sorry then she say
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In fact, in my survey of parents, the word sad rarely appeared, although children were often described as “depressed.”
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I was at the point of mental and physical fatigue when I cry so easily that all you have to do is say the word "sad" and my eyes start leaking.
Suzanne Morrison: For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V.
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And President Obama wrapping up his China trip by confronting what he calls a sad part of his family's history.
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I sat down with her this week to talk about how she's going to keep that work going long after leaving the White House and she was quick to point out that she is closely watching what she calls a sad situation for the people of Myanmar also known as Burma.
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The suburban Chicago woman was using her blog to encourage friends to send mail to unspecified soldiers until she learned of the ban, which she called a sad commentary on society.
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President Bush is getting a firsthand look at what he calls a sad situation in southern California.
reesetee commented on the word sad
I say we record all of our comments and send them to you in a file, so you can listen on your iPod whenever you want.
May 11, 2011
chained_bear commented on the word sad
So hopelessly behind on comments that I will never, ever catch up and don't have time even to try. Missing my Wordnik buddies. :-(
May 10, 2011
johnmperry commented on the word sad
Seasonal Affective Disorder. An acronym which started life as a joke but now is being taken seriously. Seriously that is only by pseudo-scientists, quacks and other charlatans.
July 19, 2008